As far as the sincerity and honesty of the ladies we can only tell you that the vast majority have nothing but good intentions. You can get a good feel for this within a few letters back and forth. The ones that are sincere and honest girls will never ask for money or gifts. They are poor, but they are also very proud. The "bad apples" will have no problem lying and say that their mother needs surgery or she needs money to take English classes to "better" herself for you. If you stick to the rule of never sending money to a lady that you have never met before, everything will be alright. The sincere ladies are not looking for long-term pen pals. If you correspond for a while, the next step is to fly over and meet her, as this is the only way to really get to know each other. This is also the only way to obtain a Fiancé Visa if marriage is being considered. If you have been serious through mail and phone with the lady, then she is suddenly hesitant when it comes to meeting and moving the relationship forward, you may want to reassess her sincerity. These are the two biggest things to look for in the first stage of the relationship. Be cautious, but don't be so suspicious that you turn her off. If you use your heart AND your head you should be just fine!

 

Please, if you ever have a lady asks you for money or seems to be a "scammer" in any other way, let us know immediately. We need to look into any such cases and pull the ladies from our website and alert any other guys who have written to her that she is not to be trusted.

 

 

 

This is an important question that every man needs to ask before considering marriage to a lady from Russia or the Ukraine. However for the most of ladies listed with our company, the answer is very simple; these ladies are looking for a "normal" family life, which is difficult to come by in Russia and Ukraine these days. The reasons for this are complex, but let us offer a brief overview to at least give you a bit of an understanding about the difficult situation many Russian and Ukrainian women find themselves in when looking for a husband.

 

GOOD RUSSIAN MEN ARE HARD TO FIND

 

 Russian culture has always put great emphasis on creating a strong and harmonious family life. Russian women are still raised to respect the traditional roles of men and women in marriage, not to see those roles as a "threat" to their self-image. Russian women still expect their men to fill the traditional roles of "Head of the Family", "Father Figure", "Patriarch", etc. However, the fall of the Soviet Union has created circumstances in Russia and Ukraine that have caused many men to reject these traditional roles in family life. (In a strange way, it is almost a mirror image of the way many European women have rejected their traditional roles in the family.) It is important to keep in mind that Russia and Ukraine are experiencing economic problems that are just as harsh, more widespread, and have lasted longer than The Great Depression; and there is still no end in sight. There are millions of college-educated men in Russia who have not been able to earn a decent living for the last ten years. There are hundreds of thousands of doctors, lawyers, engineers, and even nuclear scientists working as labourers, driving taxis or selling candy bars and other small goods on the street just to survive. On top of that, many Russian men have lost their sense of national pride. After 70 years of sacrifice, war, repression and suffering, Russians are now forced to face the fact that the Great Russian Revolution, which they were taught to revere as the greatest achievement in human history, was nothing more than a monstrous lie from the very beginning. These circumstances have taken a dramatic toll on the self-esteem and general outlook of many Russian men, who feel hopelessly unable to provide for their families. There has been a huge wave of men abandoning their wives and children, alcoholism is rampant on a scale that is unimaginable in the West, the suicide rate among Russian men is one of the highest in the world, and life expectancy for Russian men has dropped to 56 years old, the lowest of any industrialized nation. The situation is so bad, that there are now 10 million fewer men than women in Russia, a huge deficit. Of course, there are also many Russian men who have become hard, ruthless "New Russians". These are Mafioso-types, who take what they want by force, and brazenly reject any form of traditional values. Unfortunately, "New Russians" are practically the only people who actually make a decent living in Russia and Ukraine right now. Obviously, none of these types of men are attractive candidates when a lady is looking for a man to be her lifetime partner or the father of her children. Russian Ladies Want A Real Husband The vast majority of Russian women want to find a descent husband. Unfortunately, a huge number of Russian women wind up with men who deep down, feel like failures. No woman wants to spend her life playing nursemaid to a man who feels beaten down, and raising her children in an atmosphere of hopelessness.

 

Ultimately, all of these issues add up to one very simple problem for Russian and Ukrainian women; they simply cannot find a stable, decent husband. In the same way that many European men have become generally dissatisfied with European women, the ladies involved with European-Brides are also looking for alternatives to the kinds of men they find in their own countries. We hope this gives you at least a little insight into the world Russian ladies live in, and the reasons they are looking for European husbands.

 

 

Please be assured that the ladies placed on our website are real and searching for a true soul mate, just like the gentlemen using our service do, and www.european-brides.com helps both ladies and gentlemen with the greatest degree of professionalism in our industry. We work hard to provide confirmed and updated information on the website. It is of course impossible to meet every lady in person; you can see that we have lots of them on the website. However, please be assured that we work hard to verify the ladies’ identities and carry out regular checks of the ladies in order to avoid any possible cases of fraud or outdated information. And please note that if you are not sure about a particular lady we would be happy to verify her status for you personally. Just send her ID number to us and we will check the lady for you.

 

There are several options how you can make sure that the lady you are interested in is real:

 

You may call her and talk to her directly. You may exchange postal addresses and correspond via regular mail.

You may send her flowers and have a picture taken at the time of delivery.

And most importantly, you may go and meet her face to face.

 

 

Yes, it is the same lady. In Russian, like in any other language, there are many variations for personal names. The same person can have 2 or more names which are appropriate at various contexts. For example, Elena is the lady’s official or formal name. However, the lady’s family or friends may call her Lena, Alena, or even Lenochka. Those are her nicknames which reflect a particular context and relation. Almost every Russian name will have such variations. Here are most widely used of the female names with variations. To avoid confusion, I list girls by their full, first names.

 

Natalya – Natasha, Nata Oksana - Oxana Olesya – Lesya, Alesya Olga – Olya, Ole Svetlana – Sveta Tatyana – Tanya Valentina – Valya, Vala Viktoria – Vika, Vicky Yuliya – Julia, Julie

 

 

 

All female names end in the letter "A". (Exception: Lubov)
All female 2^nd names (male, from father, never surnames) end in ‘evna’ or ‘ovna’. (Vladimironva, Sergeevna, Igorevna)
‘ochka’, ‘enka’, ‘usha’, 'uta' at the end of a name, is simply a term of endearment. (Jenny, Chrissy, Suzie, Pooky)

 

 

You can use our services only if you are a registered member of our agency. After you have been registered with our agency you will get your unique ID number and personal account with all details of your payment which been made with balance of the credit in your account.

 

 

Most women cannot afford computers or internet service at internet cafe's; many times they will get a private email address only to abandon it later when they can no longer pay these costs. For this reason we cannot guarantee the accuracy of any woman's private email address and we do not give refunds as this is something that is totally out of our control. However we do guarantee that all physical addresses are correct and will issue 2 free addresses of your choice if an address that you purchase proves to be incorrect or if the lady has moved and left no forwarding address.

 

Normally, you should get a reply from the lady within 2-7 days. Note that if a lady is not replying we always contact her and remind her that she has a letter to reply to. Please keep in mind that the majority of the ladies have to go to their local agencies to read and answer their mail, so it may take up to three weeks for a lady to reply to your messages. Normally it takes less time, but each case is different, as work, location and family obligations can all be factors. Please try to be patient and wait for a little while longer. If you wait for the lady’s answer, she may explain herself in a letter very soon. However, if the ladies keep silent for a long time you can always contact our Customer Support team. You just need to send her ID number to us and we will contact the lady and ask her to reply to you as soon as possible. Sometimes a lady just needs a reminder, and we will be happy to do this for you.

 

 

European-brides.com is a very reputable agency and is well known for its integrity, open and honest business. Our website gives you the opportunity not only to correspond with the ladies but also to contact them on the phone and even meet them in person. Please be assured that the letters are written by the ladies themselves. Ladies come to their local agencies to read and reply to the clients' letters and we are doing our best to control the work of our affiliate agencies. Recently we have added new paragraphs in our Agreement which will help to control the correspondence and protect you (our clients) from receiving form, prewritten letters, or letters sent on the ladies' behalf.

 

We have also launched new Anti-Scam Program and lead the fight with scammers online. Pease note also that if you have any concerns whatsoever about some particular lady just contact our Customer Support team and they will always be happy to help you and to reply to all your questions.

 

 

Please be assured that the information in the ladies’ profiles placed on our website is correct and it is constantly updated. Before activating any lady on our website our verification team contacts the ladies by phone and checks the information that was added to our database. Only after this we activate the lady on European-brides.com Afterwards we regularly check ladies' contact information. If something has changed we deactivate the lady till we get and confirm the information. If the agency or lady herself changes information, she becomes automatically deactivated till we contact her personally for verification.

 

 

Having a Gentlemen's Listing is a great way for you to safely post your Bio Data and Photos on the web and to be seen by thousands of ladies who can send email directly to your European-Brides mailbox. Ladies will also look at your listing when they receive an e-mail from you. We HIGHLY recommend that you create a profile. It is quite understandable that ladies prefer to correspond with men who have a complete profile available to be seen. It is always easier to start relations when you have a better idea of a person you are writing to. 

 

 

Gentlemen's Listings are perfectly safe. Our privacy and safety features include:

Your Last Name, Address, etc., are NOT included in the listing.

Only Registered Agencies can access Gentlemen's Listings, they are NOT available to the general public. This means that ladies will view the listings while they are physically in a registered agency's office. This means that your listing will not be seen by friends, neighbours or colleagues.

Your email messages are located on our secure server. European-Brides has a strict policy of confidentiality.

 

 

They write to too few women, they send poor quality photos and badly written letters to beautiful educated women and then are disappointed when they get few replies to their letters! If you want to attract high quality women then you must show them that you too are intelligent. Please take the time and expense to send these women a professional photo taken of yourself if at all possible and you will not be disappointed in the results.

 

 

Click on the menu item that says "Login." Or go to this page: http://www.european-brides.com/login/ once there you will enter your email address and password and then click the "Login" button. After you do this you can then make any of these changes to your profile information. You do not have to worry about losing any mail as our computer system will automatically update all your account information and route it to your new email address.

 

 

I forgot my password, how can I get it again?

Click on the menu item that says "Login." Or go to this page: http://www.european-brides.com/login/ once there you will enter your email address and click "Send me my password" and it will be sent to your email address that we have on file for your account.